trailThe WIV possessed or had access to a bat coronavirus sufficiently similar to SARS-CoV-2 to serve as an engineering backbone
The WIV possessed or could have engineered a close progenitor of SARS-CoV-2
Candidate backbones in WIV's possession or access· for
The WIV possessed RaTG13, a bat coronavirus that was the closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 at the time of the outbreak
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The WIV held undisclosed bat coronaviruses more similar to SARS-CoV-2 than those it published
The WIV possessed unpublished bat coronavirus sequences that it did not disclose
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Genetic distance too large for any known virus to be a backbone· against
A coronavirus 96% genetically identical to SARS-CoV-2 is too divergent to serve as a practical engineering backbone
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The WIV possessed or had access to a bat coronavirus sufficiently similar to SARS-CoV-2 to serve as an engineering backbone
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